Description and Instructions
Note: Event start time is the start of PRACTICE
👋Welcome to the 2026 ORL Endurance CUP
📓PARTICIPATION REQUIREMENTS
- YOU MUST BE IN THE DISCORD TO PARTICIPATE IN OUR EVENTS!
- Please read our RULE BOOK.
🏆Class/driver category explained
All teams are considered fair racing competition and should not be treated differently on the track. If a GT3 Championship team is stuck behind a GT3 Wildcard team, that is a fair battle.
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⬜GT3🏆: Championship participating teams, these teams have paid the entry fee for the championship and will be running priority slots in each round
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🟧GT4 (Spa & Nords ONLY [Wildcard]): The GT4 Wildcard teams are similar to the GT3 wildcards. However, we are only allowing GT4's in the Spa 12h and the Nordschleife 24h races to help fill those slots and diversify the grid. We *MAY* allow them at Bathurst pending good behaviour in the other races.
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⬛M2, -40kg (Nords ONLY [Wildcard]): Like the GT4 Wildcard class, the M2's are here to help fill and diversify the grid at the Nordschleife 24h race. We *MAY* allow them at Spa but that will be decided through the series.
💰ENTRY FEE & Prize pool
EARLY BIRD, $15USD/Team until MARCH 7th
WILDCARDS ARE FREE
ENTRY FEE: Please send the full balance of your entry fees to the paypal account linked below. The entry fee is $25 USD per team. If paypal requires you to do CAD please send $35 CAD - NOT $25.
All Entry Fees Are Final - Please confirm your availability before confirming your purchase. All paid fees are considered final. We do not offer refunds for any reason including: lack of availability to participate, being kicked or removed from the championship, being kicked or banned from the Discord server or any other reason. ORL IS NOT TO ABSORB THE TRACTION FEES, IF YOU SEND EVEN $0.01 LESS THAN THE FULL AMOUNT IT WILL BE CONSIDERED AN UNPAID BALANCE.
PRIZE POOL: The prize pool is TBD, it might look like ~25% to ORL, ~75% to the prize pool. The money collected by ORL is NOT FOR PROFIT, it will be used to give back to the community in some capacity with either raffle prizes or to improve our offerings.
🗓️EVENT schedule
All server start times are at 10:00 EST / 16:00 CET
- R1: Apr 4th - Paul Ricard 8h (weekend before IRL)
- R2: May 9th - Nordschleife 24h (weekend before IRL)
- R3: May 23rd - Monza 6h (weekend before IRL)
- R4: Jun 20th - Spa 12h [2x time] (weekend before IRL)
- R5: Jul 11th - Bathurst 10h
📅Race weekend schedule
IRL SCHEDULE
- P - 9:00 am EST (10 min): Enough time to load in a put the correct driver in the car
- B - 9:10 am EST (8 min): No driving in this session for the briefing
- Q - 9:18 am EST (40 min): Each event has different rules
- R - 10:00 am EST (Race Start)
QUALIFYING RULES FOR EACH EVENT
- Round 1, 3 & 5: Everyone together, leave space to the car ahead in the out lap.
- Round 2: All classes qualify together. Pit exit order is GT3 Championship, GT3 Wildcard, GT4, then M2 to reduce traffic. After the opening lap, traffic follows normal blue flag behavior. Any car that misses the first release must wait until the full field has passed pit exit on their first flyer before joining the GP circuit. Teams who fail to qualify for any reason may either choose to start from the pits OR start from the grid but cannot overtake until after turn 2. (I'm still deciding on this tbh)
- Round 4: Pending GT4 participation numbers either 20mins GT4 then 20 mins GT3 or 15-25
IN GAME TIME
- Round 1 - Q: 17:00/R: 18:00
- Round 2 - Q: 14:00/R: 15:00 (Short formation lap)
- Round 3 - Q: 14:00/R: 15:00
- Round 4 - Q: 15:00/R: 16:00 (2x time multiplier)
- Round 5 - Q: 4:00/R: 5:00
⛅Weather
Will be the closest to IRL weather forecasts for each round (except Bathurst because that was February) OR whatever you experience in the practice server. If you ask us what the weather is we will probably just say "the same as the practice server".
🛞pit requirements
- No stint timer
- No drive time limit
- Tire changes required based on race length:
- 6h = 5 tire changes
- 8h = 7 tire changes
- 10h = 9 tire changes
- 12h = 11 tire changes
- 24h = 22 tire changes
📊BOP
🧑⚖️stewarding (Incident Manager APP/SAfety car?)
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ORL has recently developed a primitive stewarding app that will allow us to have repeat contact offenders penalized based on a binary no fault system
For those of you who are familiar with iRacing no-fault built in stewarding system you will understand it quite well. It is not the same system, however, it is similar in how it works. Once there is a contact detected each driver gets an Incident Point. Once a point thresholds is reached a penalty is automatically applied. The settings are TBD but might look something like this:
- 1 points per contact with another car
- 4 points = 15s penalty
- 6 points = 15s penalty
- 8 points = DT
- 12 points = DT
- 16 points = SG30
- 18 points = DQ
- We will adjust it from race to race to ensure constant improvements.
- Live-stewards will oversee the Incident Manager app, however you are still encouraged to submit reports in our #🎫│enduro-reports channel in case they are not picked up or severity/intent/stupidity is in question
- We may experiment with a SAFETY CAR in rounds 2 and 4 pending staff availability, it might be a game time decision. It will be explained in the briefing and in the race.
🎨LIVERIES
📒RULEBOOK
